Kallithea features

------------------

- Has its own middleware to handle Mercurial_ and Git_ protocol requests. Each

  request is authenticated and logged together with IP address.

- Built for speed and performance. You can make multiple pulls/pushes

  simultaneously. Proven to work with thousands of repositories and users.

- Supports http/https, LDAP, AD, proxy-pass authentication.

- Full permissions (private/read/write/admin) together with IP restrictions for

  each repository, additional explicit forking, repositories group and

  repository creation permissions.

- User groups for easier permission management.

- Repository groups let you group repos and manage them easier. They come with

  permission delegation features, so you can delegate groups management.

- Users can fork other users repos, and compare them at any time.

- Built-in versioned paste functionality (Gist) for sharing code snippets.

- Integrates easily with other systems, with custom created mappers you can

  connect it to almost any issue tracker, and with a JSON-RPC API you can make

  much more.

- Built-in commit API lets you add, edit and commit files right from Kallithea

  web interface using simple editor or upload binary files using simple form.

- Powerful pull request driven review system with inline commenting, changeset

  statuses, and notification system.

- Importing and syncing repositories from remote locations for Git_, Mercurial_

  and Subversion.

- Mako templates let you customize the look and feel of the application.

- Beautiful diffs, annotations and source code browsing all colored by

  pygments. Raw diffs are made in Git-diff format for both VCS systems,

  including Git_ binary-patches.

- Mercurial_ and Git_ DAG graphs and Flot-powered graphs with zooming and

  statistics to track activity for repositories.

- Admin interface with user/permission management. Admin activity journal, logs

  pulls, pushes, forks, registrations and other actions made by all users.

- Server side forks. It is possible to fork a project and modify it freely

  without breaking the main repository.

- reST and Markdown README support for repositories.

- Full text search powered by Whoosh on the source files, commit messages, and

  file names. Built-in indexing daemons, with optional incremental index build

  (no external search servers required all in one application).

- Setup project descriptions/tags and info inside built in DB for easy,

  non-filesystem operations.

- Intelligent cache with invalidation after push or project change, provides

  high performance and always up to date data.

- RSS/Atom feeds, Gravatar support, downloadable sources as zip/tar/gz.

- Optional async tasks for speed and performance using Celery_.

- Backup scripts can do backup of whole app and send it over scp to desired

  location.

- Based on Pylons, SQLAlchemy, SQLite, Whoosh, vcs.

License

-------

**Kallithea** is released under the GPLv3 license. Kallithea is a `Software

Freedom Conservancy`_ project and thus controlled by a non-profit organization.

No commercial entity can take ownership of the project and change the

direction.

Kallithea started out as an effort to make sure the existing GPLv3 codebase

would stay available under a legal license. Kallithea thus has to stay GPLv3

compatible ... but we are also happy it is GPLv3 and happy to keep it that way.

A different license (such as AGPL) could perhaps help attract a different

community with a different mix of Free Software people and companies but we are

happy with the current focus.

Community

---------

**Kallithea** is maintained by its users who contribute the fixes they would

like to see.

Get in touch with the rest of the community:

- Join the mailing list users and developers -- see

  http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/kallithea-general.

- Use IRC and join #kallithea on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net) or use

  http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=kallithea.

- Follow Kallithea on Twitter, **@KallitheaSCM**.

- Issues can be reported at `issue tracker

  <https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea/issues>`_.

   .. note::

       Please try to read the documentation before posting any issues,

       especially the **troubleshooting section**

Online documentation

--------------------

Online documentation for the current version of Kallithea is available at

You can also build the documentation locally: go to ``docs/`` and run::

   make html

.. note:: You need to have Sphinx_ installed to build the

          documentation. If you don't have Sphinx_ installed you can

          install it via the command: ``pip install sphinx`` .

Migrating from RhodeCode

------------------------

Kallithea 0.3.2 and earlier supports migrating from an existing RhodeCode

installation. To migrate, install Kallithea 0.3.2 and follow the

instructions in the 0.3.2 README to perform a one-time conversion of the

database from RhodeCode to Kallithea, before upgrading to this version

of Kallithea.

.. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

.. _Python: http://www.python.org/

.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/

.. _Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

.. _Bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/

.. _GitHub: http://github.com/

.. _Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/

.. _Git: http://git-scm.com/

.. _Celery: http://celeryproject.org/

.. _vcs: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/vcs

.. _Software Freedom Conservancy: http://sfconservancy.org/

.. _Puppet module: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/rauch/kallithea

This will prompt you for a "root" path. This "root" path is the location where

Kallithea will store all of its repositories on the current machine. After

entering this "root" path ``setup-db`` will also prompt you for a username

and password for the initial admin account which ``setup-db`` sets

up for you.

The ``setup-db`` values can also be given on the command line.

Example::

    gearbox setup-db -c my.ini --user=nn --password=secret --email=nn@example.com --repos=/srv/repos

The ``setup-db`` command will create all needed tables and an

admin account. When choosing a root path you can either use a new

empty location, or a location which already contains existing

repositories. If you choose a location which contains existing

repositories Kallithea will add all of the repositories at the chosen

location to its database.  (Note: make sure you specify the correct

path to the root).

.. note:: the given path for Mercurial_ repositories **must** be write

          accessible for the application. It's very important since

          the Kallithea web interface will work without write access,

          but when trying to do a push it will fail with permission

          denied errors unless it has write access.

You are now ready to use Kallithea. To run it simply execute::

    gearbox serve -c my.ini

- This command runs the Kallithea server. The web app should be available at

  http://127.0.0.1:5000. The IP address and port is configurable via the

  configuration file created in the previous step.

- Log in to Kallithea using the admin account created when running ``setup-db``.

- The default permissions on each repository is read, and the owner is admin.

  Remember to update these if needed.

- In the admin panel you can toggle LDAP, anonymous, and permissions

  settings, as well as edit more advanced options on users and

  repositories.

Internationalization (i18n support)

-----------------------------------

The Kallithea web interface is automatically displayed in the user's preferred

language, as indicated by the browser. Thus, different users may see the

application in different languages. If the requested language is not available

(because the translation file for that language does not yet exist or is

incomplete), the language specified in setting ``i18n.lang`` in the Kallithea

configuration file is used as fallback. If no fallback language is explicitly

specified, English is used.

If you want to disable automatic language detection and instead configure a

fixed language regardless of user preference, set ``i18n.enabled = false`` and

set ``i18n.lang`` to the desired language (or leave empty for English).

Using Kallithea with SSH

------------------------

Kallithea currently only hosts repositories using http and https. (The addition

of ssh hosting is a planned future feature.) However you can easily use ssh in

parallel with Kallithea. (Repository access via ssh is a standard "out of

the box" feature of Mercurial_ and you can use this to access any of the

repositories that Kallithea is hosting. See PublishingRepositories_)

Kallithea repository structures are kept in directories with the same name

as the project. When using repository groups, each group is a subdirectory.

This allows you to easily use ssh for accessing repositories.

In order to use ssh you need to make sure that your web server and the users'

login accounts have the correct permissions set on the appropriate directories.

.. note:: These permissions are independent of any permissions you

          have set up using the Kallithea web interface.

If your main directory (the same as set in Kallithea settings) is for

example set to ``/srv/repos`` and the repository you are using is

named ``kallithea``, then to clone via ssh you should run::

    hg clone ssh://user@kallithea.example.com/srv/repos/kallithea

Using other external tools such as mercurial-server_ or using ssh key-based

authentication is fully supported.

.. note:: In an advanced setup, in order for your ssh access to use

          the same permissions as set up via the Kallithea web

          interface, you can create an authentication hook to connect

          to the Kallithea db and run check functions for permissions

          against that.

Setting up Whoosh full text search

----------------------------------

Kallithea provides full text search of repositories using `Whoosh`__.

For an incremental index build, run::

    gearbox make-index -c my.ini

For a full index rebuild, run::

    gearbox make-index -c my.ini -f

The ``--repo-location`` option allows the location of the repositories to be overridden;

usually, the location is retrieved from the Kallithea database.

The ``--index-only`` option can be used to limit the indexed repositories to a comma-separated list::

    gearbox make-index -c my.ini --index-only=vcs,kallithea

To keep your index up-to-date it is necessary to do periodic index builds;

for this, it is recommended to use a crontab entry. Example::

    0  3  *  *  *  /path/to/virtualenv/bin/gearbox make-index -c /path/to/kallithea/my.ini

When using incremental mode (the default), Whoosh will check the last

modification date of each file and add it to be reindexed if a newer file is

available. The indexing daemon checks for any removed files and removes them

from index.

If you want to rebuild the index from scratch, you can use the ``-f`` flag as above,

or in the admin panel you can check the "build from scratch" checkbox.

.. _ldap-setup:

Setting up LDAP support

-----------------------

Kallithea supports LDAP authentication. In order

to use LDAP, you have to install the python-ldap_ package. This package is

available via PyPI, so you can install it by running::

    pip install python-ldap

.. note:: ``python-ldap`` requires some libraries to be installed on

          your system, so before installing it check that you have at

          least the ``openldap`` and ``sasl`` libraries.

Choose *Admin > Authentication*, click the ``kallithea.lib.auth_modules.auth_ldap`` button

and then *Save*, to enable the LDAP plugin and configure its settings.

Here's a typical LDAP setup::

 Connection settings

 Enable LDAP          = checked

 Host                 = host.example.com

 Account              = <account>

 Password             = <password>

 Connection Security  = LDAPS

 Certificate Checks   = DEMAND

 Search settings

 Base DN              = CN=users,DC=host,DC=example,DC=org

 LDAP Filter          = (&(objectClass=user)(!(objectClass=computer)))

 LDAP Search Scope    = SUBTREE

 Attribute mappings

 Login Attribute      = uid

 First Name Attribute = firstName

 Last Name Attribute  = lastName

 Email Attribute      = mail

If your user groups are placed in an Organisation Unit (OU) structure, the Search Settings configuration differs::

 Search settings

 Base DN              = DC=host,DC=example,DC=org

 LDAP Filter          = (&(memberOf=CN=your user group,OU=subunit,OU=unit,DC=host,DC=example,DC=org)(objectClass=user))

 LDAP Search Scope    = SUBTREE

.. _enable_ldap:

Enable LDAP : required

    Whether to use LDAP for authenticating users.

.. _ldap_host:

Host : required

    LDAP server hostname or IP address. Can be also a comma separated

    list of servers to support LDAP fail-over.

.. _Port:

Port : optional

    Defaults to 389 for PLAIN un-encrypted LDAP and START_TLS.

    Defaults to 636 for LDAPS.

.. _ldap_account:

Account : optional

from gearbox.command import Command

class UpgradeDb(Command):

    '''(removed)'''

    deprecated = True

    def run(self, args):

        raise SystemExit(

            'The "paster upgrade-db" command has been removed; please see the docs:\n'

        )

#!/bin/bash

set -e

set -x

cleanup()

{

  echo "Removing venv $venv"

  rm  -rf "$venv"

}

echo "Checking that you are NOT inside a virtualenv"

[ -z "$VIRTUAL_ENV" ]

venv=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir kallithea-release-XXXXX)

trap cleanup EXIT

echo "Setting up a fresh virtualenv in $venv"

virtualenv -p python2 "$venv"

. "$venv/bin/activate"

echo "Install/verify tools needed for building and uploading stuff"

pip install --upgrade -e .

pip install --upgrade -r dev_requirements.txt Sphinx Sphinx-PyPI-upload

echo "Cleanup and update copyrights ... and clean checkout"

scripts/run-all-cleanup

scripts/update-copyrights.py

hg up -cr .

echo "Make release build from clean checkout in build/"

rm -rf build dist

hg archive build

cd build

echo "Check MANIFEST.in"

sed -e 's/[^ ]*[ ]*\([^ ]*\).*/\1/g' MANIFEST.in | grep -v '^node_modules/bootstrap\|^kallithea/public/css/style.css' | xargs ls -lad

echo "Build dist"

python2 setup.py compile_catalog

python2 setup.py sdist

echo "Verify VERSION from kallithea/__init__.py"

namerel=$(cd dist && echo Kallithea-*.tar.gz)

namerel=${namerel%.tar.gz}

version=${namerel#Kallithea-}

ls -l $(pwd)/dist/$namerel.tar.gz

echo "Releasing Kallithea $version in directory $namerel"

echo "Verify dist file content"

diff -u <((hg mani | grep -v '^\.hg') | LANG=C sort) <(tar tf dist/Kallithea-$version.tar.gz | sed "s|^$namerel/||" | grep . | grep -v '^kallithea/i18n/.*/LC_MESSAGES/kallithea.mo$\|^Kallithea.egg-info/\|^PKG-INFO$\|/$' | LANG=C sort)

! tar tf dist/Kallithea-$version.tar.gz | grep "$namerel/node_modules/bootstrap/\$"

echo "Verify docs build"

python2 setup.py build_sphinx # not used yet ... but we want to make sure it builds

cat - << EOT

Now, make sure

* all tests are passing

* release note is ready

* announcement is ready

* source has been pushed to https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea

EOT

echo "Verify current revision is tagged for $version"

hg log -r "'$version'&." | grep .

echo -n "Enter \"pypi\" to upload Kallithea $version to pypi: "

read answer

[ "$answer" = "pypi" ]

echo "Upload docs to pypi"

# See https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiDocumentationHosting

python2 setup.py build_sphinx upload_sphinx

xdg-open http://packages.python.org/Kallithea/installation.html

echo "Rebuild readthedocs for docs.kallithea-scm.org"

xdg-open https://readthedocs.org/projects/kallithea/

curl -X POST http://readthedocs.org/build/kallithea

xdg-open https://readthedocs.org/builds/kallithea/

xdg-open http://docs.kallithea-scm.org/en/latest/ # or whatever the branch is

extraargs=${EMAIL:+--identity=$EMAIL}

python2 setup.py sdist upload --sign $extraargs

xdg-open https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Kallithea